Since I was 5, I've known I was the same inside...the strong willed part that responds to the world,the kid in my heart. Recently while doing my usual random reading on the web I ran across a long range study that had looked at 1st graders' 6 year old personalities and then studied them again years later and whoa Nelly...decided that most people's personalities are set by age 6. My beliefs have been confirmed! All children deserve childhoods that let them develop the kid in their heart.